[JS Bug]: useLiveShareContext not returning joined or joinedError about live-share-sdk

[ryanbliss]

@JessieLiroff also note that we do plan to support Live Share in GCC soon. Azure Fluid Relay is a relatively new Azure service, and the final certification it needs for GCC just got approved very recently. We are taking steps to enable Live Share in GCC but will have to get back to you on timeline.

[pradeepananth]

@JessieLiroff Please find responses in quotes:

1. Is there somewhere in the documentation I can find a list of what isn't supported in GCC?

Please refer to the Live Share FAQ pag Live Share FAQ - Teams | Microsoft Learn for list of environments where Live Share is not supported yet. These will be updated when it is available.

2. Is there a list of potential joinErrors?

Teams client does send out error with internal error codes, which Live Share core SDK will send as is. However, it looks like Live-share-react package is abstracting this away and we will need to fix this.
FYI @ryanbliss

3. Is there a reason the error you're sending for GCC not supporting liveShare is so generic?

We had relied on teams-js getContext API to identify the environment based on this field: teamsContext.app.host.ringId, but since this is breaking in new Teams, we are not handling this in the Live Share SDK, and we have filed a bug on our internal team that owns this SDK. We will keep you posted once this is fixed.
In the old Teams client, the app can check against this field and indicate to the user this environment is not supported. That field would have value as general_gcc if Government Cloud.

[pradeepananth]

Could you please share their M365 Tenant Id so we can find their cloud type?
Either they could help provide by looking up in Entra admin center per this document https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/sharepoint/find-your-office-365-tenant-id
or if we know their domain (after '@' part of their email), we can look it up in this service
https://www.whatismytenantid.com/

[JessieLiroff]

@pradeepananth it's a2a21b60-5625-43fe-a55a-52f5e111d71c

[JessieLiroff]

@pradeepananth we screenshared with them today and got some additional information

1. when using the teams classic app useLiveShareContext did not return joined or joinError
2. when she tried using the website she hit a joinError of LiveShareProvider: An unknown error occurred while joining container.
3. The partner is running teams in the goverment cloud

[pradeepananth]

@JessieLiroff Thanks for your response. We confirmed that the tenant is indeed Government cloud. Live Share is not supported in this tenant at this time. The expected behavior for Government clouds is that joinedError is returned from the Teams client, and we're investigating why it's not the case.

[JessieLiroff]

Thank you! @ryanbliss @pradeepananth A couple of additional questions:

1. Is there somewhere in the documentation I can find a list of what isn't supported in GCC?
2. Is there a list of potential joinErrors?
3. Is there a reason the error you're sending for GCC not supporting liveShare is so generic?